Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Directed by Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Hope Ryden, James Lipscomb · 52 min · Documentary
4.9 TOPICAL score · #6,191 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from enrolling in the university, the JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999.
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963, directed by Robert Drew and Richard Leacock and D. A. Pennebaker and Hope Ryden and James Lipscomb) has a TOPICAL score of 4.9 - ranked 6,191 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on cast and historical impact, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 6.9/10 (23 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 5 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 6.9/10 (23 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 5 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read635 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy (actor #1,654), George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
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